A Song of Ice and Fire

Building upon the methods used and skills learnt over four weeks, this final body of work used methods or combinations of experimental typography to reinterpret titles of a trilogy (or more)—using George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire, having five published titles under this series.

A Game of Thrones and A Dance With Dragons uses calligraphy drawn with wooden sticks, while A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords and A Feast for Crows utilises woodblock printing.

I designed each title to be a reference to the title itself, or a visual interpretation of the title using letterforms—angled 3D-like letters picturing navigating through the game with orchestrated scheming and machinations, disorganised ‘clashing’ of letters in a jumble, sharp letterforms crossing one another, scattered letters like crows, and smooth calligraphy in a dance-like flow.

This was an effort to communicate visually purely through lettering, without the use of any background images. A consistent placement of the titles with the series title and author’s name brings them together as a body of work, while the use of various text colours differentiates the titles from one another.

Made for GRAP2682 Experimental Typography, Master of Communication Design RMIT.